Leah Solivan — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Founder of TaskRabbit in 2008, an on-demand marketplace company, which she scaled into an international business and oversaw its sale to IKEA in 2017.
Managing Director of Precedent.vc, an early-stage venture capital fund backing technology companies.
General Partner at Fuel Capital, investing in early-stage startups across consumer technology, hardware, education, marketplaces, and retail.
Serves on the Board of Directors for PetMeds (NASDAQ: PETS) and the San Francisco Ballet, and is Chair of the Board for the YPO Pacific US Region.
Host of "Breaking Precedent the Podcast."
Began her career as a software engineer at IBM for seven years, working on products including Lotus Notes and Domino.
Earned a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Sweet Briar College, where she has also served on the Board of Directors.

Biography

Leah Solivan is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist, widely recognized as the founder of TaskRabbit. She currently serves as the Founder and Managing Director of Precedent.vc, an early-stage venture capital fund, and is a General Partner at Fuel Capital, where she invests in early-stage startups across various sectors.

In 2008, Solivan founded TaskRabbit, a pioneering on-demand marketplace.